Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-03
wOMAN'S WORLD.
VARIOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR
THE FAIR SEX,
The Glove Question = Beauty of
Womanly Form = Housekeeper
and misunderstanding

and Handmaiden-Hint
BY the by, have you seen those most Gu.
rious gloves, undervests and stockings that
fill window on Broadway? They call il
Primrose" but it is the brightest. most
glaring, most assertive yellow have ever
seen in my life. Who in the world would
have courage to clothe herself in this get
up? The gloves and stockings are suf-
ticlently long, with the assistance of the
SILK skirt, to entirely cover the body, and I
am wondering what ballet dancer will add
to 1t all with black sash and make her
self study in yellow and black for the
front row.
When will women learn that gloves in
tense in color simply make their hands
look large and prominent? For, really.
anything that attracts attention at once to
the hands only increases their size. That
is one reason why white gloves have such
an abominable effect. Don't you remem
Der the old-fashioned photographs where
people had their hands arranged in the
most conspicuous manner over the back
OF impossible chairs-that is, impossible
out of photograph gallery-and where
the first thing you saw, or rather the first
thing that struck you, was the deadly
whiteness of the hands and their immense
size? In those days of inartistic photo
graphing one might wear five glove. but
In the picture it looked like nine.-" Bah"
IN Men York Star.
THE WELL-sHAPED WOMAN.
Art should always be based on nature,
and no art is true which does not take
nature for its model. A perfect, symmet-
rical, healthy woman of five feet ten inches
in hight must comply with the following
standard: She should be 1873 pounds at
the least and could stand up to ten pounds
more without injury to health or artistic
perfection. The distance between the TIPS
of her two middle fingers, when the arms
are extended, should be exactly the same
as the hight, or ten times the length of her
hand, or seven and a half times the length
OF her foot, or five times the diameter of
her chest from one armpit to the other.
The distance from the junction of the
| thighs to the ground should be the same
sN' AiOiAi bhS ioiiiiSl W luc lDD Oh the
head. The knee should be exactly mid
way from the junction of the thighs to
the bottom OF the heel.
The distance from the elbow to the tin
of the middle finger should be the same as
from the elbow to the middle line of the
chest. From the top of the head to the
chin, with the head posed naturally,
should be the same as from the level of the
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| tip of the large toe. The bust of woman
Of the hight named should be forty-three
inches measurement over the arms, and the
waist twenty-four.
The upper part of the arm should be
| from thirteen and half to fourteen in
ches, and the wrist six inches. The ankle
should be six inches, the calf of the leg
fourteen and the thigh twenty-five. Any
woman Of the hight mentioned who has
these measurements can congratulate her
self on having as perfect form as the Gre
| ator ever made. OF course the proportions
vary with the hight.-New York Mercury.
HoUsEKEEPER AND HANDMAIDEN.
Young housekeepers are more liable to
consider the likes and tastes of their hand
maidens than their mothers and aunts.
The opportunity for universal government
is so new to the young woman she is often
| diffident about asserting her authority, and
if she be of gentle nature and the maids
at all uppish she must sometimes gather
up all her courage to issue an order she
knows the ladies in the kitchen will not
like. If the cook is cross and the house
maid pert | know the terror of it, for |
was young housekeeper myself once.
Never shall | fOruet NV fret 1icp,,ceol
of servant and how hard | found
the task. The waitress was to 90.
She performed her work in most
inferior way and was subject to
sulks, wearing her nose in the air in a
most aggrieved fashion when told to do
anything. | knew this was not right,
for we were family of two en-
tertaining little, with two servants,
and my husbands shirts sent to the
laundry. Yet / hated to give her
any unusual orders, her manner was SO I'M
pleasant, and | would fortify myself for the
encounter by repeating words of my
mothers, "never be afraid to say what
you wish to have DONE" So when it came
to telling the girl she must leave. the con-
venient season seemed hard to find.
Neither Just after breakfast or lust before
oSCiiiCu tlIleS, So L uc-
ferred the evil from hour to hour. | was
making an afghan of shaded colors at the
time, and | well remember how | post
poned my dismissal many times to crochet
one more row" before the dreaded con-
versation was opened. This is many years
ago, and although | have rarely been
obliged to send girls away since / can do
it any minute that it is necessary without
borrowing courage from crochet needle
To the timid young mistress | would say
remember that your servants are hired
for your convenience, not for theirs" if
you find yourself disliking to issue proper
orders; and to those sterner mistresses who
try to exact perfection and generally fail,
| would add that the man servant and the
maid servant within our gates are quite as
human as ourselves.-Ctuotine E. Upham,
in Good Housekeeping.